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WILLIAM NEWVHOFF, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO GEORGE MOEBS, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED CIGAR MOLD AND LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,713, dated December 27, 1887.

' Application filed January 17, 1887. Serial No. 224,538. (No model.)

invention, such as will enable others skilled.

in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to the means employed in the manufacture of cigar-bunches wherein the common binder is dispensed witlnenabling me to producea cheaper and more freely-smoking cigar.

My invention consists in using, in combination with the ordinary matrix and follower ofa cigar-mold, a bunch supporting and removing plate, which I locate in each of the bunch-forming cells of the matrix. Said plate aids in giving the bunch its proper form and enables the operator to remove it from the mold or matrix to place upon it the finishingwrapper, as hereinafter fully disclosed, and pointed out particularly in the claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective of a cigarmold containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of same taken on dotted line as m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the bunch partially removed from the cell of the matrix. Fig. 4. is a cross-section taken on line 1 l of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a perspective of the forming and removing plate. Fig. 6 is a perspective showing modification. Fig. 7 is a section taken on dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 6.,

In the drawings, B represents the common matrix, and A the common follower.

S is the detachable metal former and bunchremover, which is made concavo-convex in cross-section, and is so shaped throughout its length that when placed in one of the cells 0 of the matrix it will conform to the shape of the bottom portion of the cell, being made sufficiently large to receive and give to the cigar-bunch one half of its form, the upper half being formed in the usual way by the follower A.

The bunch lifting and forming plate S, I provide with a 1ifting handle or arm, a, (see Figs. 1, 3, and 5,) and said arm may be dispensed with when the matrix B is provided with the pockets t, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. I bevel or narrow the upper edges, 6 e, of the lifting-plate, so as to prevent the forming of a seam along the sides of the bunch when the tobacco is being pressed init, as shown in Figs. 1 and 6.

The parts are operated as follows: I place in the bottom of each cell 0 of the matrix B one of the lifters S, as shown in Fig. 1, with the arm a projecting outward. The tobacco forming the bunch is then forced into each cell of the matrix in the usual way (except ing that I do not use-a binder, as in the common practice) until the cells are filled. The follower or pressing plate A is then placed in position, as shown in Fig. 1, and the entire mold is then placed under a press, as in the ordinary practice. When the bunches D have been sufficiently pressed, the mold is removed from the press, the pressing-plate A is lifted from the matrix B, and each cigar or bunch D is removed from its cell by lifting upward on the handle or arm a of the former and bunch-supporter S, as shown in Fig. 3. It will be observed that by this arrangement the bunches may be readily and perfectly formed and removed from the cells without breaking or in any way destroying their form, and that the bunches may be so made, ready to receive the final or covering wrapper, without using the binder for facilitating the removal of the bunch or bunches from the cells, as now commonl y practiced.

In Fig. 6 I show the detachable former and lifter S without the arm a at one end. When so constructed, I cut or form at the butt-end opening of each cell of the matrix a chamber, t, leading up under the end of the metallic lifter S, as clearly shown in Fig. 7, the bunch 9 and lifter being removed from the matrix B by inserting a thumb or finger into the chamber 12 below the lifter S, and raising it upward. The operation of the parts otherwise is the same as in Fig. 1.

Having thus fully set forth my invention, ject beyond the butt-end of the cell, as and for 10 what I claim as new, and desire to secure by the purposes specified. Letters Patent, is- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in In a device for the purposes specified, the presence of two witnesses. 5 combination of the follower A, the matrix B,

T having the cell 0, the detachable metallic VILLIAM LEWHOFF" bunch former and lifter S, concavo-convex in Witnesses: cross-section, conforming to and covering the R. B. WHEELER, entire bottom of the cell, having one end pro- O. XV. RUSSELL. 

